LOL Both of you. I'm still trying to figure out "ALL THE CLUES" LOL I have no idea the what any of the answers to any of the clues are, Oh one was "Heart." Still trying. Dorothy

My sister had a dog almost like them. His name was Sparky. He loved to go to Wal-mart with us. He knew my car and every time he saw me he would go crazy thinking we were going to take him to Wal-Mart. He was a pound dog too. I missed him when she had to have him put to sleep.

Oh, I defo wear my boots, Bossy. We KNOW we have a copperhead. Our neighbor said he was bitten by a copperhead once out there and he never wanted to go through that again. Our pasture lease guy has also been bitten on the property a mile down the road where the rest of his herd pasture. They're out there, for sure. Ours is likely up under the laundry building. The plumber and the electrician working out there SAW him near the building and Lance saw the tail end of it go up under that building (right behind our cabin) one day while he was mowing with the lawn tractor mower. Anyone know of anything I can spray (using my power washer) underneath the two buildings that might get that copperhead to move on to a new home? I pretty sure I can get the nozzle into the lattice skirting and aim a wide enough angle for good coverage. Wanted to spray some bleach down underneath both structures to get rid of a musty, mildewy smell, anyway. I watch my little rat terrier like a hawk in the yard. Wish the red-tail hawks all over the sky would find that copperhead, frankly, and make a good lunch of him. If he ate the mole and gopher out there, at least he would be earning his keep. But this snake is just THERE, making me worry.

Thanks so much for the helpful suggestions! I really appreciate it, and indeed might compromise by adding sugar but not too much. :) Some added conjectures: Regarding the bitter taste, I have this hunch that the reason some people are more buffered, and less affected, by bitter/sour/salty/spicy/harsh/dry foods are due to the prevalence of high blood sugar in society - that's associated with sweet-saliva. I happen to favor sweet 'n sour (and sweet 'n salty) - but my key question is - do diabetics favor those combos, if after all, shouldn't "sour" actually taste "sweet 'n sour" to diabetics, given their built-in sweet-saliva? Sweet saliva i would assume buffers people from extreme tastes & textures. There's also the supertaster vs. non-taster factor (which can be another buffer) and for all i know, being a non-taster may possibly be one of the causes of high blood sugar. After all, the miners' canaries type of tastebuds have early-warning signals (of what's too sweet or too sour etc.etc.) similar to the way people with sensitive nerves have early-warning signals of whether they're injured. Kids born without nerve-endings that feel pain are a mass of bruises. Oh, they're very cheerful, since after all, they lack pain. Likewise, i longingly eyed my acquaintance, when i saw how cheerfully unaffected she was by an extremely garlicky food-dish, while i felt half dead from it. I don't know if any researcher has ever bothered to research this topic, if only for the purpose that food-labellers should add PH data and humectant data to their carb, fat & sodium labelling.